In this talk, Jonathan Atkinson (People Powered Retrofit) hosts a conversation with Kimberley Androliakos from URBED, an urban design practice with a particular focus on deep retrofit. Kim talks about what the Social Housing De-cabonising Fund is, introduces us to URBED's projects and talks about the key lessons learnt from the challenges they have faced so far.
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Jonathan Atkinson co-founded Carbon Co-op with Nick Dodd from URBED in 2006 and was part of the early development of the Community Energy movement in the UK. In 2021, he co-founded People Powered Retrofit as a separate organisation and oversaw early stage development including the authoring of a successful community share issue to capitalise the company in late 2021.
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Kimberley Androliakos joined URBED in 2020 as a Consultant Urban Designer and Part II Architectural Assistant after graduating with Distinction from the MA Architecture course at the Manchester School of Architecture. During her time at URBED she has worked on a wide range of projects including home user guides, a combination retrofit/infill housing master plan and pilot projects for the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund in Leeds and Northampton. She is currently undertaking a Level 5 Retrofit Coordination and Risk Management course to better understand the processes and pitfalls of retrofit. She is also looking to undertake her RIBA Part 3 and become a qualified architect.
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This talk took place at Selwyn Road Playing Fields (Birmingham Settlement) in Ladywood on Thursday 13th July 2022 as part of Retrofit Reimagined Day 3: Existing And Emerging Practice In Retrofit. Retrofit Reimagined was a four day neighbourhood festival that ran 13th — 16th July 2022 in Birmingham, UK that sought to bring together neighbours, practitioners, and organisers from across the country who are focused on retrofit, its role in the future of decarbonising our built environment and a just transition.
Hosted in partnership with Dark Matter Labs, ACAN and zero carbon house, within a wider 3 week festival from CIVIC SQUARE that explored regenerative neighbourhoods together with many people and partners, as a collective we aimed to converge some of the most inspiring and impactful work on retrofit, with many different sectors, practices and ideas coming together to form new combinations.
Our hope is to establish solidarity, share knowledge and resources, and galvanise collective momentum around more equitable, creative, collective approaches to decarbonising the built environment, reimagining retrofit from being one of our biggest challenges to one of our greatest opportunities to transition equitably together.
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